39994 - make <label>s look disabled when control disabled

Status: NEW

(Core :: Layout: Form Controls, enhancement)

Description

[Jesse Ruderman]

it would be nice if moz would give feedback through labels when controls are 
disabled. i don't know what the html specs say about this.

(an example of where it would be useful in the browser itself is the 
advanced|proxies prefs area)

Comment 1

[Marc Attinasi]

Rod, is there a way to do this?

Comment 2

[rods (gone)]

Yes, maybe in the Label frame we can check the control's disabled state during 
reflow and the label can then set itself appropriately. But apparently we can't 
work on this feature until next year.....

Comment 3

[rods (gone)]

setting to M18

Comment 4

[rods (gone)]

This bug is marked "future" because it is not critical for RTM (Release To 
Manufacturing). If anyone believes it is critical, please explain why in
this bug. 

Comment 5

[Jesse Ruderman]

Well, it couldn't hurt acceptance by Windows users if at least the prefs window 
changed label color to indicate "disabled", because native Windows widgets do 
this.

Comment 6

[rods (gone)]

There is a completely different implementation for the UI versus the HTML label. 
Please file a new and separate bug on the UI (XUL) if this doesn't work there. I 
am considering this a HTML only bug.

Comment 7

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

Appropriate disabled appearance would be different depending on the platform -- 
Mac OS uses grayed out text (which in HTML would be opacity: 0.7 or something 
like that), whereas Windows uses inset bevelled text. Ian, does CSS have the 
possibility for bevelled text?

Comment 8

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

Yes, see bug 10713.

Comment 9

[Jesse Ruderman]

Does that work on a white background anyway?

Comment 10

[Alex Peng]

I like IE can grey out disable label.

Comment 11

[Andrés Delfino]

This continues in:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9b5pre) Gecko/2008030610 Minefield/3.0b5pre